International Trade and Factor Mobility: An Empirical Investigation

Immigration and International Trade: a Semiparametric Empirical Investigation

This paper examines the effect of immigration on the US trade flows. The model hypothesizes that immigration facilitates international trade with home countries by lowering transaction costs. Immigrants also demand products from their country of origin, and thus stimulate trade. Using a panel data set I estimate a dynamic, fixed-effect model. The immigrant stock, a proxy for transaction costs, ...

An Empirical Investigation of Trade Credit Use

This paper investigates empirically the theoretical motivations for the use of trade credit by firms for purchases. The extent to which trade credit is used for purchases and the accounts payable to total assets ratio, i.e. the demand for trade credit, are modelled here as a function of transaction costs motivations, financing motivations, operational considerations, seller compliance issues, s...

Empirical Approches to International Trade

Trade Liberalization, Firm Heterogeneity, and Unemployment: An Empirical Investigation

This paper provides empirical evidence for the interaction between firm-level total factor productivity and trade liberalization as key determinants of firm-level job destruction caused by trade. We also test some key theoretical predictions from Melitz (2003), whose model is used to derive an explicit equation relating firm productivity and trade-induced labor layoff when a country liberalizes...

Service Trade and Occupational Tasks: An Empirical Investigation∗

Using micro data for Belgium we investigate the relationship between occupational tasks changes and the rise of service trade. We focus the analysis on the extensive margin and look at the heterogeneous proliferation of firms involved in exports and imports of services across sectors characterized by different tasks changes patterns. Occupational tasks changes display an extremely consistent re...